Twitter Hits Five Billion Tweets

It seems as if the five billionth tweet has been tweeted (twittered? tweedled? en-twittenated?) from micro-blogging site Twitter.

As you can see, the "Pentagigatweet" reads only "Oh lord.", and it originates from Robin Sloan, a California writer and "web generalist." It's not a religious expression; Sloan's "Oh Lord." is the reply to another tweet.

Of course the accuracy of the five billion number isn't definite. It's based on third-party app Gigatweet's calculations, and doesn't take into account the times Twitter reset the tweet counts, nor does it factor in pre-launch tweets. But still, Sloan has the number 5,000,000,000 in his tweet's URL, and that's good enough for me.

As for the future of the famous tweet: Sloan promises to unleash the power of the "Necropentagigatweet" tonight at Midnight, PST, when he deletes the five billionth tweet from existence. This will most likely destroy the universe.